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Sunday, April 14, 2013

Boston City Council Library/Archives available through the Digital Public Library of America

The following press release was received from the Digital Public Library of America. This opens up another kind of record not normally available to genealogists. If you think that there is no genealogical information in this type of record, perhaps you need to expand your definition of valuable records:

Materials in the Boston City Council Library/Archives could be madeavailable through the Digital Public Library of America. Especially ofinterest are the City Departmental Annual Reports with the imprint ofthe City Printing Department and the Union Bug Label. It may requirean action of the City Councilors to get the 100 or so Boston CityCouncil staff moving and develop historic preservation of theLibrary/Archives of Boston City Council. Also the plain Englishstenographic records of the Public Meetings of Boston City Councilaren't being preserved for history. The stenographic records are adifferent format than the archive of video. The stenographic recordsare budgeted for with public funds and are more complete than the toobrief summary form of Minutes.